Civil Engineering

About Civil Engineering

Comprehensive studies in four areas-planning, the environment, information, and mechanics and disaster preparedness-provide an immediate sense of civil engineering’s role in urban settings. These programs endow students with the strong technical skills needed to practice engineering that serves the public, such as providing security in an increasingly aging society with fewer children, identifying urban issues, and transmitting data from cities.

Research

Tokyo Metropolitan Rail Network Plan

Seiji Iwakura

The appropriate implementation of the master plan for urban railway network in the Tokyo metropolitan area will provide a highly convenient urban transport system that is fitting for the Tokyo metropolitan area as a world city and diversify future lifestyles. Bringing the plan to fruition will require the cooperation and collaboration of national and regional governments, railway operators, consultant engineers, academics.
In our lab, major studies are demand forecasting models for the urban railway planning, and optimal simulation system for high frequency train operation.
For example, the proposed multi agent simulation model is developed to analyze train knock-on delay in a 48 km track length from suburban station to midtown station. The simulation part consists of a train traffic simulator and a passenger flow simulator with that works in parallel. Some forecasting results of improvement strategies designed to reduce delay can be assessed with great accuracy.

Objectives in Education and Research

The vision of the Department of Civil Engineering is to nurture individuals having the following skills, and who are able to understand the entire system comprising the building, the environment, and society, as well as having a strong sense of ones duty within a group.

An awareness of the role and responsibility necessary to formulate a sustainable society.

Acquire fundamental engineering and civil engineering knowledge empowering individuals with the abilities to comprehend, pursue, and solve real-life issues and social needs.

Communication skills to actively participate in not only Japan but globally.

Career

The graduates are highly sought after for railway/road construction firms and general construction companies responsible for building design/construction, construction consultants responsible for structural design and local/urban planning, and national/local government officials responsible for planning and managing community facilities for use by the community.